#kinda obsessed with the shady boss guy voiced by okiayu too

[crehador]

winter 2024 first impressions: sasaki to pi-chan

it's way too early so i'm not saying anime of the season but i am saying holy fucking shit

tl;dr well that escalated quickly

picked this up for sugitan and all i knew going in was it would involve a salaryman and some sort of magic bird? which technically yes it is certainly about a guy and his bird

but it is also extremely more than that! it's isekai in a way that feels very fresh to me (the bird is the one who was isekai'd into our 'real' world plus there's a lot of travel back and forth between the 'other' world and 'our' world so in a way it almost feels like isekai in both directions, and the bits of sasaki basically starting up a whole business of trade in the new world are fascinating to me, love seeing that sort of thing)

and after watching the first ep i peeked at the show info and saw it tagged mahou shoujo and even fucking? battle royale?? as well???

(though that info is user-submitted so time will tell how accurate it is)

there was a lot, i mean a lot, packed into this double-length first ep. but the pacing didn't feel rushed to me at all! it moved along at a nice clip, but never made me feel like there was too much going on

extremely looking forward to where this one is going

#crab watches #sasaki to pi-chan #winter 2024 #first impressions #tl;dr STRONGEST START OF THE SEASON SO FAR #it's a small thing but i kind of like how... genuinely average sasaki is? like in both directions #as in he doesn't have some perfect life at the start BUT his life doesn't completely suck either #he's not super overworked (though he is underpaid) he's not like lamenting his life #he's just a completely ordinary 39yo salaryman who loves cute animals and wishes he had a bit more money so he could raise a pet #i think the fact that he's so average makes it SO much funnier and more compelling #that he just takes all this in stride so easily #anyway. obsessed with this old man #kinda obsessed with the shady boss guy voiced by okiayu too #(mostly just voice reasons but) #(inch resting things happening there too i think)